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1️⃣ It was founded by the guy who ran IT at Louis Vuitton China

$VET was built by Sunny Lu, the former CIO at Louis Vuitton China. The man who oversaw IT at one of the world's most counterfeited luxury brands went on to build a blockchain specifically designed to fight counterfeiting.

2️⃣ A UFC PPV event was literally named after $VET

In November 2025, a UFC pay-per-view was officially branded VeChain UFC 322. Not just a logo on the mat. The name of the event. VeChain is also the first ever Official Layer 1 Blockchain Partner of UFC, with branding reaching an estimated 900 million TV households across 175 countries.

3️⃣ Walmart China logged over 200 million on-chain transactions through $VET

Walmart China uses VeChain to track packaged meat, vegetables and seafood across its stores. The system has recorded over 200 million on-chain transactions. T That is one of the largest real-world enterprise blockchain deployments ever built.

4️⃣ The network has had zero downtime since it launched in 2018

VeChainThor went live in June 2018 and has not gone offline once. Over 6 years of continuous commercial operation with a perfect uptime record. Damn!

5️⃣ An entire country runs on $VET, and their COVID passports were NFTs

San Marino, one of the oldest republics in the world, signed a national-level partnership with VeChain and eventually hosted the VeChain Foundation's European HQ. During COVID, the country issued blockchain-based vaccination certificates as NFTs on VeChainThor, verifiable anywhere in the world without a dedicated app.

If you made it this far, you probably already know $VET is different. Why not check it out? 😎